Very little advancement was made by Network Rail (the new title for Britains national rail network) to modernise the vastly outdated tracks and locomotives across the country. To this day Britain still runs a mixture of diesel and electric powered trains on its networks but it wasn’t until 1997 when Virgin Rail won the franchise to upgrade the West Coast Main Line to allow tilting electric trains to operate at 140 mph by 2005. Due to costs having blown out from £2.5 billion to £10 billion there were cutbacks to the upgrade and the top speed reduced to 125 mph. Today, this is still the most advanced mainstream network in the country, but by all accounts it is far behind other regions of the world which have soared towards high speed train networks. This is widely regarded to be partly down to certain country’s having to traverse far less inclines and complicated routes as there are in the UK, but also due to the lack of disruptive moments in the development of their railway history.